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Default Brick wall keep falling down (in certain places) ... should I reinforce? How?

Martin C. wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:30:15 -0500, dadiOH wrote:

In the first photo, you have a wall less than a foot high. I can't
imagine it falling over even if the pricks were just stacked?
Somebody whack it?


Maybe.

Here's another picture of the low wall with nothing to each side:
http://picturepush.com/public/7853114

I had the kids cultivate the lawn and I think the cultivator machine
may have whacked the wall hard about two years ago and my teenager
repaired it. Now it's falling down in exactly the same spot.

The previous guy said that the mortar didn't stick ... and that's
what it looks like (I think). That coupled with the whack from the
cultivator maybe?

Hard to tell from the photo but it look as if you've got a foot or
more of soil on the inside (photo #2). ... Are there weep holes?


None that I know of.
Here's another picture of the wall with soil behind it:
http://picturepush.com/public/7853183

Is there steel through the bricks into the footer?


None that I know of. That's kind of what I was asking.
Q: What's the best way to reinforce this?


Tear it down, start from scratch and build a proper retaining wall.

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